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Tue, 03 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0700enhourly1Lee Daniels’ The Butler - A shallow pool of tears.http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-21021-lee_daniels_the_butler_a_shallow_pool_of_tears.html
Every time a character in The Butler goes on a
trip, somebody offers him a ham sandwich. Director Lee Daniels does much
the same for the viewer—in every single scene.
It isn’t hard to see
]]>Cheap Eats 2014 - http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-21991-cheap_eats_2014_.html
From the Editor
Portland is a great place to be a cheapskate. Each year,
we put out our Cheap Eats guide to the best restaurants in Portland with
dinners under $15 and lunches under $10, and ea]]>Market Guide 2014: Introduction - From the Editorhttp://www.wweek.com/portland/article-22485-market_guide_2014_introduction_from_the_editor.html
Look, you gotta eat every day. We get this. And because the demands of your growling stomach are as incessant and irritating as A Prairie Home Companion on NPR weekends, it’s easy to fall into routi]]>Bar Guide 2013: Editor's Note - http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20550-bar_guide_2013_editors_note_.html
After long marches through Portland’s
bars, pubs, lounges, taverns and brewpubs, we’ve come to believe that
bars age a lot like the wine or whiskey served at them. Only a few are
at their ve]]>Bar of the Year 2013: Victory Bar - http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20551-bar_of_the_year_2013_victory_bar_.html
Rare that a name is as felicitous as Victory Bar’s. Willamette Week’s first-ever Bar of the Year isn’t shiny or new or even particularly fashionable. It’s just a goddamn winner.
The bar came ]]>Restaurant Guide 2013: Roe, Restaurant of the Year - http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-21313-restaurant_guide_2013_roe_restaurant_of_the_year_.html
It’s 11 in the morning, six hours
before dinner service begins, and Trent Pierce is already three hours
into his workday. In the open kitchen of his tiny avant-seafood
restaurant, Roe, tucked ]]>Mari-Wanna? - Oregon and two other states are huffing and puffing toward legalizing weed. But don’t buy that bong just yet.http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19599-mari_wanna_oregon_and_two_other_states_are_huffing_and_puffing_toward_legalizing_weed_but_dont_buy_t.html
Harking back to the days when everything that mattered in
politics was decided in smoke-filled rooms, the Western states...]]>2012 Holiday Gift Guide, Vol. 2 - Nice Things for Naughty Peoplehttp://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20009-2012_holiday_gift_guide_vol_2_nice_things_for_naughty_people.html
In our first Holiday Gift Guide, we directed you to some
downright pleasant local stores, where you might putter around aimlessly
and endlessly to find gifts for the various people in your
life�]]>The Best Ribs in Portland: 22 Racks, Ranked - 22 racks of pork ribs eaten for our ultimate Portland rib burn-off.http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-22681-the_best_ribs_in_portland_22_racks_ranked_22_racks_of_pork_ribs_eaten_for_our_ultimate_portland_rib_.html
You can’t eat ribs without dirty fingers and a munged-up
face. They’re just about the only food that even a princess still has to
gnaw off the bone like a Bengal tiger. It takes hours to cook ]]>Capture or Asylum - Chuck Palahniuk’s Fugitives and Refugees 10 Years Later. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20859-capture_or_asylum_chuck_palahniuks_fugitives_and_refugees_10_years_later.html
In junior high, they give you To Kill a Mockingbird. In high school, it’s The Catcher in the Rye.
In Texas, we presume, they give you a Bible and a gun. In Portland,
sooner or later most new arr]]>Kachka, 2014 Restaurant of the Year - The party of the year is vodka drunk and fish happy.http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-23204-kachka_2014_restaurant_of_the_year_the_party_of_the_year_is_vodka_drunk_and_fish_happy.html
Kachka is like a party at Mom’s house—if your mom grew up near Minsk and had a weird thing for Lenin.
In a room decorated with both Soviet propaganda posters
and carved window frames from]]>The Tooth of the Matter - A new call to put fluoride in the city’s water raises old fears.http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19580-the_tooth_of_the_matter_a_new_call_to_put_fluoride_in_the_citys_water_raises_old_fears.html
After 54 years of opposition, the City of Portland is moving to put fluoride in your drinking water.
Upstream Public
Health, the group behind the fluoridation move, launched what amounted
to a p]]>Top Five Restaurants of 2014: Number 4, American Local - Road-tripping from Wisconsin to Japan.http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-23207-top_five_restaurants_of_2014_number_4_american_local_road_tripping_from_wisconsin_to_japan.html
The American Local was made on the
road—in a cheese-logged Wisconsin bar called the Old Fashioned, and
amid the cream and sugar of Iowa’s Waffle Stop Grill. It was made in the
piled, loose]]>Restaurant Guide 2012: Off the Hook - The secrets of good sushi.http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19811-restaurant_guide_2012_off_the_hook_the_secrets_of_good_sushi.html
Discriminating sushi fans assert they
would never eat Midwestern sushi, pronouncing it much too far from the
dwindling seas of salmon and snapper. Portland diners, presumably, are a
mere two-hou]]>I’ll Have What She’s Having - This 82nd avenue joint is delicately Chinese and discreetly Korean.http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17216-ill_have_what_shes_having_this_82nd_avenue_joint_is_delicately_chinese_and_discreetly_korean.html
Chinese Delicacy restaurant, despite the
name, is not exactly a Chinese place—at least, not in any simple way.
Your first hint should be on the tiny]]>Bar of the Year 2014: Enso Urban Winery - http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-22228-bar_of_the_year_2014_enso_urban_winery_.html
The wine bar is poised on the edge of something new.
Think back to the birth of Portland’s craft brewery bars
back in the ’80s and ’90s: It was exciting. Rather than emulating the
off-gassi]]>High-5 North to Vansterdam - A primer for potential pot tourists. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19985-high_5_north_to_vansterdam_a_primer_for_potential_pot_tourists.html
Vancouver is rarely touted for its progressive politics,
but Portland’s sister city to the north now may now have one solid, um,
high point.
With passage of
ballot initiative I-502, Washingt]]>World Cup 2014: Early Boots (updated) - Where to watch the World Cup live in Portland.http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-22664-world_cup_2014_early_boots_%28updated%29_where_to_watch_the_world_cup_live_in_portland.html
21st Avenue World Cup Beer Garden
625 NW 21st Ave., 202-744-1496, facebook.com/worldcupbeergarden. 8:30 am-9 pm daily.
Go for: Breakfast sandwiches with beer and bros.
When it opened in 2011, the r]]>Drink 2012: High Culture, Low Places - http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19046-drink_2012_high_culture_low_places_.html
You don’t have to be a whorehouse Henry Miller or Dylan Thomas souse to know that literature and debauched penury often coincide.
Tony’s Tavern and Joe’s Cellar—a pair of the diviest of Port]]>Bollywood Theater - Indian street food that's pure Portlandhttp://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19279-bollywood_theater_indian_street_food_thats_pure_portland.html
Chef Troy MacLarty may have walked the streets of Kolkata
to research the food for his new Indian bistro Bollywood Theater, but in
feeling his restaurant is pure Portland: upscale street food amid]]>Closing Time - 2014 was Barmageddon in Portland. You don’t have to stay home, but you can’t go here.http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-23710-closing_time_2014_was_barmageddon_in_portland_you_dont_have_to_stay_home_but_you_cant_go_here.html
A world
was ending. Some wept openly, one woman danced the worm so hard she
thinks she might have shattered her knee, and the next night at least
two people had sex in the basement. We’ve all ]]>Portland's Goose Hollow Tracy J. Prince with Bud Clark - http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17360-portlands_goose_hollow_tracy_j_prince_with_bud_clark_.html
It is natural to assume that the topography of a city is
fundamentally constant—that some half-distant ancestors found a
promising patch of earth and proceeded to sow the seeds for what would
ripen, as if inevitably, into the place we know well. But cities are
things of tumult]]>A Fine Show - Tony Demes is back with Noisette.http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-18747-a_fine_show_tony_demes_is_back_with_noisette.html
Chef Tony Demes’ new French-modern restaurant Noisette is
good for both dinner and a show if you do it right. Couvron, his
much-missed previous restaurant—which Demes moved from Portland to Ne]]>Urban Winery Tour - Our guide to getting mashed in your own neighborhood.http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-21416-urban_winery_tour_our_guide_to_getting_mashed_in_your_own_neighborhood.html
Everything you need to know about your local wineries, including hours, directions and drink picks.1. Boedecker Cellars
2621 NW 30th Ave., 224-5778, boedeckercellars.com.
It’s not ca]]>Don’t Drink the Water! - If you did, you’d know what a crazy, panicked overreaction we had to the latest contamination scare.http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19505-dont_drink_the_water__if_you_did_youd_know_what_a_crazy_panicked_overreaction_we_had_to_the_latest_c.html
On July 21, Multnomah County and city officials warned
Portlanders that their drinking water had tested positive for E. coli...]]>Bar Guide 2013: Old Town Drag - Where nobody knows your name.http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20554-bar_guide_2013_old_town_drag_where_nobody_knows_your_name.html
“Best-looking women in Portland!” says the man in the street. He wasn’t talking about anyone nearby: He was making an offer.
Promising immediate access to “40 of
Portland’s hottest women,]]>Driving After the Influence - If Washington legalizes dope, driving there could become risky for tokers.http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19629-driving_after_the_influence_if_washington_legalizes_dope_driving_there%C2%A0could_become_risky_for_t.html
Oregon medical marijuana patients might have reason to
worry if the state of Washington’s dope legalization initiative passes
in November—that is, if they ever plan on driving in Washington.
]]>Paul Collins Murder of the Century - Dying to be famous.http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17623-paul_collins_murder_of_the_century_dying_to_be_famous.html
It is a common thing, beneath the deafening noise of
America’s Lohans and Kardashians, to hear tell that our culture—as a
result of reality television, willful illiteracy, celebrity worship, the]]>Jonathan Bloom American Wasteland - Fine foodstuff is a terrible thing to waste.http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17191-jonathan_bloom_american_wasteland_fine_foodstuff_is_a_terrible_thing_to_waste.html
Until relatively recently—within the past 50 years, say—no
one had to be told not to waste their food, and certainly not as an
ecological or even public issue. It was simple common sense: Who th]]>How The Timbers Lose - The late collapses of last season return, dimming Portland’s hopes for a winning season.http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19094-how_the_timbers_lose_the_late_collapses_of_last_season_return_dimming_portlands_hopes_for_a_winning_.html
After an optimistic start this season, the news is grim:
The Portland Timbers have staked undisputed claim to Major League...]]>